The amazing urban legends.
Oh! Yes how can I forget……..the URBAN LEGENDS. As you know I write about this small town, where I live, the small town I love.
All the people I know hate my fixation with this small town…..which is my home………..which has taught me the importance of simple living. But they say its a tough world out there and you can’t spend all your life in a barely there small town.
So true and realistic but that doesn’t mean that small towns aren’t realistic. The only unrealistic or should I say “surrealistic” thing about small towns are the urban legends related to them.
So, here we go…….
Urban legend 1: the ghost of the well.
Yes……..So spooky, thats what I thought when I first heard about it. It all started with a newspaper article and my whole neighborhood was talking about it. An olderly neighbor confirmed herself that she witnessed it. There are various versions of it. My neighbors version was of the sounds that come when you look into it. Legend has it that a pregnant woman commited suicide by drowning in the well because somebody was after her child another version is that you can still hear the water bubbling sounds because the ghost still resides in there. Another version goes like that woman was actually a queen who was trying to survive some enemies and so on. Whatever it is but the best part of it all is that this story is being told to the residents of my small towns from generations. Its like a legacy, smething you safeguard for the future generations something that remains the same throughout time lines.
Urban legend 2:Star crossed lovers
Every small town has one urban legend about a young couple. I have lived in many so I know, Anyways my small town has this legend about a star crossed couple who hid from the world and used to meet by the lake. The premise always changes that their families were against it or the girl and the boy belonged to different community. But the facts remain the same. Two star crossed lovers faced restrictions imposed on their feelings. The most best part about this legend is that its whispered from one young soul to the other, within school corridors to college verandahs. What happened of the couple is qhat happens of every star crossed couple. They were doomed, they commited suicide. But now they are a legend, Thats what a legend does it makes you realise that some stories just don’t remain stories, they become immortal, just like the people in them. People might forget or desert a small town but urban legends cannot be forgotten, they are not meant to be forgotten.